Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.